Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leader of the fight for continued commonwealth ties is Luis Munoz Marin, 69, a near-legendary figure among the island's ibaros (peasants). The country's first elected Governor (1948), Munoz retired three years ago in favor of his protégé, Roberto Sanchez Vilella, but has remained a powerful force in favor of the commonwealth. When Governor Sanchez doomed his political career last March by spurning his wife of 31 years in favor of a comely aide, Muñoz took over the Popular Democratic Party's drive to retain common wealth status. Ever since...
...like Brasília before it, will be a force in shifting the center of gravity westward into the nation's vast undeveloped sectors. Beyond the flatlands surrounding the Paraná River is the wild frontier of Mato Grosso, where cattlemen, rubber gatherers, construction men and Indians fight the jungle and sometimes each other. While the initial lure was gold, the area has been found rich in iron, manganese and limestone, not to mention fertile grazing pastures. The trouble is transportation, which is nearly nonexistent...
...Carnovsky has been dressed in a blue blazer and grey flannels. When he realizes he is not winning and that more drastic tactics are needed, he doffs his blazer and carries on the fight in sweater and shirtsleeves. In the end he loses not only Antigone, but also his son Haemon and his wife Eurydice. Now he is alone, and has only the living death of a cabinet meeting to look forward to. It is a touching moment when he tells his little page, winningly played by Billy Partello, "Never grow up if you can help...
...titled "The New Life," describes what the church believes its members ought to be doing as agents of reconciliation: "The members of the church are emissaries of peace and seek the good of man in cooperation with powers and authorities in politics, culture, and economics. But they have to fight against pretensions and injustices when these same powers endanger human welfare...
When the members of the church leave their reflection and their gathering to go into the world as "emissaries of peace," they are to "seek the good of man in cooperation with powers and authorities in politics, culture, and economics. But they have to fight against pretensions and injustices when these same powers endanger human welfare...